Entry requirements

Advanced vocational training certificate, university technical diploma, second-year Licence degree, validation of professional skills.

Benefits of the program

Strong partnerships with the Seine-et-Marne Chamber of Commerce and Industry and companies in the sector make it easier for students to obtain work placements or apprenticeships.

Students also receive efficient follow-up from tutors at the university, allowing them to validate and easily integrate work and projects completed at the university within the company. This approach also aims to foster trust and harmony between training and the professional world.

Acquired skills

The Tour Guide professional Licence is designed to meet companies’ needs in the implementation of their sales, promotion and tourism development policies. In this highly competitive sector, jobs are evolving quickly and becoming increasingly professional, meaning that specialised knowledge of monuments, history, sites and guidance techniques is required.

International

Erasmus agreements: Italy, Belgium, Spain

Capacities

25

Course venue

Your future career

The career prospects are rich and varied: guide, tour guide, promotion of local tourism within tourist organisations, etc.

Professional integration

According to several OFIPE surveys, 95% of our graduates are employed in a company withing six months of completing the course.

Study objectives

This Tour Guide professional Licence is structured into a work-study format (in particular through apprenticeship contracts) and is based on strong partnerships with the professional world. It uses project-based teaching methods. Students follow 400 hours of training and 150 hours of tutored project work. The work placement period is 16 weeks. For students on work-study programmes, the in-company period is 38 weeks.

The course has a professional focus through individual and group projects. Students must write a final dissertation. The subject of the dissertation is defined in collaboration with the host company and the University. It must meet the company’s operational needs. This enables students to appreciate the importance of their future role. The mix of faculty and professional teaching staff, students employed in different companies and their respective tutors form a unique alchemy.

Major thematics of study

History, Guiding, Languages

Calendar

1 month of classes / 2 months in a company (with a minimum of 12 weeks in a company)